I have some Clip Motion animated GIF files and Multi-Burst JPG files
created with a Sony cybershot digital camera. These files play fine
as animations when I review them on my camera, however, once I
download them to my computer, they no longer play as animations and
instead appear as single pictures. How can I play these back properly
(i.e. as animations) once I download them on my computer?

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"cman" <> wrote in message
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> I have some Clip Motion animated GIF files and Multi-Burst JPG files
> created with a Sony cybershot digital camera. These files play fine
> as animations when I review them on my camera, however, once I
> download them to my computer, they no longer play as animations and
> instead appear as single pictures. How can I play these back properly
> (i.e. as animations) once I download them on my computer?

Only a newbie myself to sony cybershot but fairly clued up on PC's. The
multi burst jpg's just produces you a series of images, they won't playback
as an animation unless you use some software to put them together as a
slideshow - nor can I find (on my P10) a way of animating the multi bursts
on the camera.

The animated gif has to be viewed on the PC with the right software. Most
image editors would just show the first frame, try opening the gif file in
Internet Explorer though, that should show the animation.

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If all your images from the camera are encoded into a single GIF upon upload
to computer, then just open it in internet explorer or PaintShop Pro's GIF
animator.
If you use Paintshop Pro then you can edit the images, add new images, make
transitions, etc.

If the images are uploaded from your camera as single GIFS, then you can use
Paintshop Pro to assemble them - just import them into the GIF animator in
sequence and you can then save the assembled "film strip".
Keep in mind that unless you downsize the frames, your resultant animated
GIF is likely to be hefty in size.

hope this helps,
Craig.

"cman" <> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I have some Clip Motion animated GIF files and Multi-Burst JPG files
> created with a Sony cybershot digital camera. These files play fine
> as animations when I review them on my camera, however, once I
> download them to my computer, they no longer play as animations and
> instead appear as single pictures. How can I play these back properly
> (i.e. as animations) once I download them on my computer?
>
> Thx,
> Colin

I ran into the same problem so I wrote an application to automatically crop the images into seperate files. You still have to use a seperate application to do the animation. http://www.chickenbit.com/chicken-crop

If someone knows the details of how I can automate the creation of an animated GIF with JAVA, let me know.

I ran into the same problem so I wrote an application to automatically crop the images into seperate files. You still have to use a seperate application to do the animation. http://www.chickenbit.com/chicken-crop

If someone knows the details of how I can automate the creation of an animated GIF with JAVA, let me know.

Hi, it can be done with the gimp and a simple script, take a look at: mo-no-e.blogspot.com/2009/10/convert-multi-burst-photos-into.html

cman said:

Hi all,

I have some Clip Motion animated GIF files and Multi-Burst JPG files
created with a Sony cybershot digital camera. These files play fine
as animations when I review them on my camera, however, once I
download them to my computer, they no longer play as animations and
instead appear as single pictures. How can I play these back properly
(i.e. as animations) once I download them on my computer?

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